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<a href="/biography/david-foster">David Walter Foster</a> was born on November 1, 1949 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is a famous <a href="/biography/david-foster">musician</a>, record producer, songwriter, arranger, and composer. He enrolled in 1963, when he was just 13 years old, in the University of Washington music program. He formed a band in Victoria, the Strangers, and they moved together to England. He then came back to Toronto, where he started playing with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Hawkins">musician</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Hawkins">Ronnie Hawkins</a>. 
 
In 1974 Foster moved to Los Angeles with his pop band, the Skylark, after they had already reached some fame thanks to their hit “Wildflower”, published in 1973. The Skylark disbanded, and Foster formed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graydon">Jay Graydon</a> the band Airplay. In 1975 Foster played on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison">George Harrison</a>’s album Extra Texture, and, in the next year, he was again in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison">Harrison</a>’s album “Thirty-Three & 1/3”, where he played the Fender Rodes and the clavinet. In 1976 Foster participated in the album “Lies and Alibis” with Guthrie Thomas and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr">Ringo Star</a>, and in 1979 he’s been <a href="/biography/david-foster">one</a> of the most important contributors of the album “I am” of the “Earth, Wind and Fire”.

He also won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song thanks to “After the Love Has Gone” that was part of that album. In the early 1980s Foster has been a major <a href="/biography/david-foster">contributor</a> to Chicago’s career, having he been the <a href="/biography/david-foster">producer</a> of “Chicago 16” (1982), “Chicago 17” (1984), and “Chicago 18” (1986). Foster has been in those years a <a href="/biography/david-foster">cowriter</a> of successful songs like the US Chart No. 1 hit "Hard to Say I'm Sorry", "Love Me Tomorrow” (US # 22), "Stay the Night" (US # 16), and "You're the Inspiration" (US # 3). Foster has been named in 1985 by the magazine “Rolling Stone” and the “master of bombastic pop kitsch”. In those years the composed the score for movies like “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1985), “The Secret of My Success” (1987) and, later, for the movie “The Bodyguard” (1992), hitting many top 10 and also a number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100. Foster composed also the “Winter Games”, the song that became the theme for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

In 1995 Foster signed a deal with Warner Brothers that allowed him to setup his own boutique label, 143 Records, as a joint venture with them. In 1997 Foster sold the label to Warner Brothers itself, and he became the vice president of the corporation. With this label, Foster producer important debut album for <a href="/biography/josh-groban">Josh Groban</a> (2001), <a href="/biography/michael-buble">Michael Bublé</a> (2003), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renee_Olstead">Renee Olstead</a> (2004), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Zyrus">Charice</a> (2010). In 2001 Foster participated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Fabian">Lara Fabian</a> and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to the record of the Canadian national anthem “O Canada” in English and French. That same year Foster composed a song for the movie “The Score”, with <a href="/biography/robert-de-niro">Robert de Niro</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando">Marlon Brando</a>, and he also appeared in the TV Program “Popstars”, a reality series by Warner Brothers. In 2005 he wrote a song, together with His daughter and with <a href="/biography/beyonce">Beyoncé</a>, as anthem of “World Children’s Day”, an event to raise money for children’s causes.

In that same year he participated to the reality TV show “The Princes of Malibu”, and also in the famous musical show “American Idol”, and as a guest judge in “Nashville Star”. In 2006 Foster has been again in TV as a vocal coach in “The View”. In 2008 Foster has been featured in a PBS special, whose title was “Hit Man: David Foster & Friends”. In 2011 Foster Became a Chairman for Verve Music Group. In 2013 he produced the first album of <a href="/biography/mary-j-blige">Mary J. Blige</a> “A Mary Christmas”, and also the album “Passione” for the Italian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Bocelli">singer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Bocelli">Andrea Bocelli</a>. In 2015 Foster joined the judges of “Asia’s Got Talent”, and in 2016 he left Verve.

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His discography is composed by the albums “The Best of Me” (1984), “David Foster” (1986), “The Symphony Sessions” (1988), “Time Passing” (1989), “River of Love” (1990), “Rechordings” (1991), “The Christmas Album” (1993), “Love Lights The World”(1994), and “A Touch of China” (1996). 
 
During his long career Foster has won the huge amount of 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations, and he’s been <a href="/biography/david-foster">producer</a> for very prominent artists like <a href="/biography/chaka-khan">Chaka Khan</a>, <a href="/biography/alice-cooper">Alice Cooper</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Aguilera">Christina Aguilera</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Bocelli">Andrea Bocelli</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Braxton">Toni Braxton</a>, <a href="/biography/michael-buble">Michael Bublé</a>, Chicago, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Cole">Natalie Cole</a>, <a href="/biography/celine-dion">Celine Dion</a>, <a href="/biography/kenny-g">Kenny G</a>, <a href="/biography/josh-groban">Josh Groban</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandy_Norwood">Brandy Norwood</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston">Whitney Houston</a>, <a href="/biography/jennifer-lopez">Jennifer Lopez</a>, <a href="/biography/kenny-rogers">Kenny Rogers</a>, <a href="/biography/seal">Seal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart">Rod Stewart</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Zyrus">Charice</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Summer">Donna Summer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John">Olivia Newton-John</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna">Madonna</a>, <a href="/biography/mary-j-blige">Mary J. Blige</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson">Michael Jackson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Lynn">Cheryl Lynn</a> and <a href="/biography/barbra-streisand">Barbra Streisand</a>.

Foster has also been honored with the titles of “Order of British Columbia” (1995), “Hon. Doctorate University of Victoria” (1995), “Order of Canada” (1998), “Canadian Walk of Fame Inductee” (2002), “Hon. Doctorate of Music Berklee College of Music” (2002), “Officer of the Order of Canada” (2006), “Canadian Music Hall of Fame Inductee” (2007), “Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee” (2010), “Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee” (2010), “Hollywood Walk of Fame Star (2013) (located near the Capitol Records Building). 
 
Foster has been married four time, and he has five biological daughters, and seven grandchildren. His first marriage has been with the singer B.J.Cook. His second wife has been Rebecca Dyer, from 1982 to 1986. His third wife was <a href="/biography/linda-thompson">Linda Thompson</a>, from 1991 to 2005. He married his fourth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda_Hadid">wife</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda_Hadid">Yolanda Hadid</a>, on 11/11/11 in Beverly Hills.

David Foster is active in social media, and he has a Facebook account with about 390k people liking him, and 373k following him, and also a twitter account with 103k followers, and more than 2k tweets.

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